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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Doing Cultural History through Comic Books
• 1. How Wonder Woman Helped My Students "Join the Conversation": Comic Books as Teaching Tools in a History Methodology Course / Jessamyn Neuhaus
• 2. Comics as Primary Sources: The Case of Journey into Mohawk Country / Bridget M. Marshall
• 3. Transcending the Frontier Myth: Dime Novel Narration and (Jesse) Custer's Last Stand in Preacher / William Grady
• 4. "Duel. I'll Give You a DUEL": Intimacy and History in Megan Kelso's Alexander Hamilton Trilogy / Alison Mandaville
• pt. TWO Comic Books as Cultural Artifacts
• 5. American Golem: Reading America through Super-New Dealers and the "Melting Pot" / Martin Lund
• 6. "Dreams May End, But Love Never Does": Marriage and Materialism in American Romance Comics, 1947-1954 / Jeanne Emerson Gardner
• 7. Parody and Propaganda: Fighting American and the Battle against Crime and Communism in the 1950s / John Donovan
• 8. Grasping for Identity: The Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu / Peter Lee
• 9. "Paralysis and Stagnation and Drift": America's Malaise as Demonstrated in Comic Books of the 1970s / Matthew Pustz
• 10. Shopping Malls of Empire: Cultural Fragmentation, the New Media, and Consumerism in Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! / Matthew J. Costello
• pt. THREE Comic Books and Historical Identity
• 11. Transformers and Monkey Kings: Gene Yang's American Born Chinese and the Quest for Identity / Todd S. Munson
• 12. Agent of Change: The Evolution and Enculturation of Nick Fury / Paul J. Spaeth
• 13. U.S. HIV/AIDS Crisis and the Negotiation of Queer Identity in Superhero Comics, or, Is Northstar Still a Fairy? / Ben Bolling
• pt. FOUR Comic Books and Contemporary History
• 14. Militarism of American Superheroes after 9/11 / A. David Lewis
• 15. September 11, 2001: Witnessing History, Demythifying the Story in American Widow / Yves Davo
• 16. "The Great Machine Doesn't Wear a Cape!": American Cultural Anxiety and the Post-9/11 Superhero / Jeff Geers.

Contributors:

Pustz, Matthew, 1968- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Comic books, strips, etc., in education

Graphic novels in education

History — Study and teaching

History

General Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB1044.9.C59 C66 2012eb

ISBNs:

1441197575 (electronic bk.)
9781441197573 (electronic bk.)
9781441172624 [Invalid]
1441172629 [Invalid]
1441163190 [Invalid]
9781441163196 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

891356430

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1752198 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11790315